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Wireframing Tips for Getting Unstuck
Writers refer to it as "writer's block." Unfortunately, it doesn't happen only to writers. As with all creative processes, wireframing can be especially challenging at times, often because we seem to get in our own way. The result in...
By Leon
Nick Pettit on Learning for Life
Nick Pettit loves learning. Learning as a way to survive in an ever-changing business landscape; Learning as means of breaking into a new field; Learning as a tool for personal improvement. He recently wrote in an inspiring blog post...
By Leon
Sean Rosensteel on the Journey from V1 to V2
Our latest champion is Sean Rosensteel. He is the co-founder of Bravo, a web-based tool for recording customer videos for marketing campaigns. Sean reached out to us via email, writing, "Wondering if Balsamiq would like to do a story...
By Leon
[Release] A Small Bug-fix Release
Hello friends! Last week's release was a big one, and very well received. As it often happens with big updates, a couple of little issues snuck in. Today's little release addresses those, as well as a few other bugs....
By Peldi
Release: Text Links, New iOS controls, and So Much More!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! It's been a couple of months since our last release, but I think you'll be happy with what we have in store for you today! 🙂 Links in text actually work! This is a hugely...
By Peldi
Admin Engineers
About a year and a half ago, we started experimenting with a company structured around project-based work. I remember Peldi asking me what I thought we should name the project for the more operational things he, Anna, Joy, and...
By Natalie
Dan Olsen on Becoming a Lean Product Ninja
Dan Olsen has traveled the country teaching people how to become "Product Ninjas" by introducing Lean product development processes into their organizations. He also consults with startups on how to create better products and processes. I was fortunate enough...
By Leon
Behind the Scenes of Our Documentation Process
We are always committed to improving our support website experience. Read this blog post for the most recent changes to the Documentation site. We recently wrote about some of the changes we made to our support site in the...
By Leon
Improving the Experience of Our Support Website
We are always committed to improving our support website experience. Read this blog post for the most recent changes to the Documentation site. At Balsamiq we've always prided ourselves on our customer service. We have real live humans who...
By Leon
Jon Matthews on Using Wireframes to Clarify Your Ideas
Our latest Champion, Jon Matthews, recently tweeted about how well Balsamiq works for drawing decision trees, like the one below. He has used it for a long time to help him design his products as well. He told me,...
By Leon
By Peldi
Looking Back at 2013
Hello friends of Balsamiq! As 2013 comes to an end, it's time to revive an old tradition (2008, 2009) and look back at all that we have achieved this year. TL;DR: We continue to truck along nicely, growing organically....
By Peldi
The mission: To rid the world of bad software
My interview on the EntrepreWired podcast.
By Peldi
Release: New Image Inspector, Huge Leap Forward in Mockups for Google Drive, and More!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! It's time for another release! This one is an exciting one. Let's see what's new. New Image Inspector Pulldown The image inspector pulldown had been in need of some love for a long time. It...
By Peldi
Wayne Chen on Avoiding Common Mobile Product Mistakes
Our latest Champion is Wayne Chen. He wrote an article recently that caught my eye called "Top 10 Mobile Product Management Mistakes And How To Avoid Them (Part 1)". He introduces his article by saying that there's no magic...
By Leon
Sketching the 2013 Retreat
Our home for the week Hi all! Ben here again. As Val already posted, last summer we had our annual company retreat. This was my first opportunity to attend, and it was such a wonderful event. When we work...
By ben
Release: New Color Picker, Tiny Character Counter, Image Rotation and More!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another month, another cool little release. Let's get right to it! New color picker and color names! We made quite a few improvements to the color picker: You can now enter any HEX color (we...
By Peldi
Ben on the Balsamiq Customer Experience
Supporting customers is such a huge part of what we do as company. Everyone contributes to customer support in one way or another, and our awesome team keep working to improve that experience. Recognizing that we don't just care...
By Mike
Glenn Murray on Using Wireframes for Copywriting
Our latest Champion, Glenn Murray, is not a prototypical Balsamiq user. He's a copywriter (although perhaps not a typical copywriter either). He recently wrote an article that opened my eyes both to the world of copywriting and to uses...
By Leon
An Office with a View
It's been a wild 3 years since my last blog post about our office in Bologna. Since then, we've grown to 16 friendly faces, a whopping 8 in Bologna alone! (If you're keeping track, we are in Bay Area,...
By Val
DO! the pursuit of xceptional execution
My interview with Kevin Kelly for his book Do!
By Peldi
Release: Retina Support, New Mockups for Google Drive UX, Big myBalsamiq Improvements, and MUCH More!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! We hope you all had a great summer. Most of us took some time off to unplug, recharge and get ready for a great, highly productive fall and winter. Even during the summer break, we...
By Peldi
User Testing Your Mobile Balsamiq Mockups with HeatData
The following is a guest blog post by Jason Shah of HeatData. Enjoy! What if you could know precisely where - down to the exact pixel - people were tapping on your content, pinching and zooming on your images,...
By Leon
Sketchnotes from Mobile UX Summit 2013
Hi, all. Ben here again with more sketchnotes! (Here is a link to the first set of sketchnotes I posted.) Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in the Mobile UX Summit, put on by Environments for Humans...
By ben
The User Experience Gap
Here at Balsamiq, we hear a lot of stories about people using our application to build great user experiences. We are so proud to be a part of the UX revolution that has taken place over the last ten...
By Leon
Yarone Goren on Validating Product Ideas with Mockups
Yarone Goren is the founder and CEO of Iteration Group, a product firm that relies heavily on Balsamiq Mockups for its projects. Yarone told me that of the 10 or so employees "we have about 5 people at the...
By Leon
JR Harrell Gets Deep on Flat Design
A few weeks ago I posted an interview with JR Harrell on our Balsamiq Champions blog. He is a UI/UX Designer who shared some great tips about how he uses Mockups and how to succeed as a designer today....
By Leon
JR Harrell on the State of Design in 2013
JR Harrell is a Denver‐based UI/UX designer. He regularly uses Balsamiq Mockups in his design workflow. He contacted us by email and wrote: As a UI/UX designer, I have used Balsamiq as my wireframing tool for a couple of...
By Leon
Happy 5th Birthday, Dear Balsamiq!
With the SuperMoon shining upon us, the friends who make up Balsamiq met in San Francisco to celebrate our company's 5th birthday. Our team is scattered around Europe and the States, so being together is rare and deliberate. Our...
By Peldi
From Product Trainer to Product Owner: Craig J Willis's Story
Our latest Champion is Craig J Willis. Craig is a long-time Mockups user who has used it in both enterprise and, now, startup environments. He wrote to us to tell us one of his Mockups success stories that resulted...
By Leon
Sketchnotes from GetSatisfaction Conference
Hi, I'm Ben. This is my first blog post for Balsamiq, so I thought I would do a brief introduction. I am a long-time user and fanboy of Balsamiq, and starting this last April, I am partnering with Balsamiq...
By ben
New Release: Breaklines, iPhone 5, List View in myBalsamiq, Confluence Blueprint and Much More!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! We are back from our yearly week-long company retreat, energized and ready to rumble. 🙂 Let's see what's new in today's update: Breaklines! We have added breaklines support to the Browser control, as well as...
By Peldi
Salvatore Cammarata Joins Balsamiq!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Our little team is growing again! This time I'd like you to join me in welcoming my good friend and old college buddy Salvatore 'Sax' Cammarata to the Balsamiq family. Sax will take on the...
By Peldi
Apps for Good in the Media
Our friend Mark Littlewood just wrote a great article on his Business Leaders Network blog about his visit to the Apps for Good awards presentation evening. In the article, Mark envisions a future, 30 years from now, where women...
By Leon
Ubuntu Uses myBalsamiq for Community Designed Mobile Apps
I recently came across a blog post by Jono Bacon of Ubuntu called "Community Driven Ubuntu Phone Core Apps". It describes the Ubuntu for phones project, which, in the spirit of Open Source, invites community contributions from not only...
By Leon
Tales from a UX Guerrilla
I have a confession to make. For the first few years of my UX Design career I was afraid to call myself a designer. I rejected the designer moniker to gain acceptance at the technically focused, development-led enterprise software...
By Leon
Jenni Merrifield, Our Community Superstar
I'm happy to introduce our latest Champion, Jenni Merrifield. Jenni is another long-time user and regular contributor to our community forums. She frequently appears in the release notes on our product blog because of her detailed bug reports and...
By Leon
30 Terrific Tools for Small Businesses
“For your next business presentation, Balsamiq allows you to mockup and design your ideas on a virtual whiteboard so they’re easier to share, modify, and get feedback on.”
By Peldi
New Release: Dashed and Dotted Lines and Arrows, Tri-State Checkboxes and Radio Buttons, and More!
Hello friends! Another little release. As usual, we have a mix of bug fixes and feature enhancements. Let's get right to it! All versions: Added dashed and dotted stroke options for Rulers and Arrow controls! Thank you derrickjon and...
By Peldi
User Testing Your myBalsamiq Prototypes with UserTesting.com
The following is a guest blog post by Darrell Benatar of UserTesting.com. Enjoy! Part of the reason we’re such big fans of the Balsamiq Mockups interface is how simple it is. Users can literally have a mockup of a...
By Leon